In beseda je meso postala \\ DRUGI poskus prvega ljubljanskega pesniškega festivala
Premiere Tuesday, March 24th 2026 at 9PM
Repetition on Monday, March 30th and Wednesday, April 1st at 8PM
— spans live composition of sound poetry, a visit of the chamber, and experience of the animation.
The fourth evening of the Ljubljana Festival of Poetry in Cirkulacija 2 will be marked by poetry in its various corporeal forms. A rather classical reading of the otherwise non-classic and poetically diverse poetry of Edit Paf alias Andreja Štepec and Ingo Vitman Öri will be followed by a live composition of sound poetry by Sergej Harlamov and Jurij Podgoršek. The Ljubljana public will be re-presented by Manifest senzorične poezije and its accompanying torture chamber, which will be complemented by a new intermedia work Zvočni zapis mašila z mašilom. The evening will conclude in noise and cacophony by poet Blaž Božič, this time in the role of noise guru SsmKOSK.
The second attempt at a Ljubljana poetry festival
21.—28. 3. 2026
8 days, 11 places, 11 events and marathon reading
The event is part of The second attempt at a Ljubljana poetry festival, which takes place between March 21st and 28th in various spaces in Ljubljana.
The festival is organized on the initiative of Dejan Koban and Nežka Struc with partners, co-producers and co-organizers by the office of Ljubljana, Unesco’s City of Literature. The programme is co-financed by the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Slovenian Book Agency.
Festival programme: https://mestoliterature.si/novice.html
Ingo Vitman Öri is a younger generation poet whose debut Sin svoje roke marks the first published slovenian poetry collection of a trans author in Slovenia. Öri is a student of art history and sociology, he participates in the Itn. festival of engaged writing and autonomous student space K17. He participated in student poetry evenings Spekter (org. Novi dijak), at Menjalnica poezije (Itn. festival), the Velikih lezbičnih branjih (ŠKUC), at Kviropisje (Kud Kentaver) and elsewhere.
Andreja Štepec was born in the summer of the year of Chernobyl. She obtained a master’s degree in Italian language and literature and is a professor of pedagogy and andragogy. She published in magazines such as I.D.I.O.T., Sex Zin and Lud Literatura and is translated into German, Russian, English, Albanian, Hungarian, Czech and Spanish. She attended various festivals across Europe, from Prague, Vienna, Vaduz, Czech Budějovic, London to Brașov in Romania. Her poetry debut titled Edit Paf (2018, LUD Šerpa) was selected in 2019 for critical treatment at the Festival Pranger. In 2022 she published a second poetry collection, also at LUD Šerpa, titled Jesenožki (jst sm utrujena), which was re-listed in the critical selection of Festival Pranger 2023. Literary critics placed Jesenožki among the 10 best and most interesting Slovenian books in 2022 in brochure 10 books from Slovenia 2023, which is edited and published annually by the Centre for Slovenian Literature. In addition, she was a longtime associate of Radio Študent, where she wrote mainly film criticism, which she is still engaged in and occasionally publishes in the magazine KINO! and translates from Italian and English and creates video poetry such as compilation of poems by Jesenožki and a separate video, with an opening poem from the last collection, Fnt moj, bodi moj dobar klastrfak. She lives and works in Ljubljana, but regularly returns to her native Jesenice.
Sergej Harlamov (1989) is a poet, sociologist and comparativist. In 2011, after winning at the Young literature festival Urška his debut, Jedci, was published. What followed were poetry collections Mnogoboj mitologij (2019, nominated for the kritiška sita prize and Jenko Award, included in the review bulletin of the Centre for Slovene Literature, Ten Books from Slovenia) and in 2022 Hypomnemata ali Obnovimo osnove pisanja (nominated for Veronika and Jenko awards, included in the Pranger Festival programme). That same year, the Velenje Book Foundation included him in the narrow list of candidates for the for the velenjica – chalice of immortality award for top-notch ten-year opus. For his interdisciplinary diploma work Michel Houellebecq and the archeology of the present he received the faculty Prešeren prize. He occasionally finds himself in the roles of a publicist and a prosaist, as well as a vocalist in the audio-visual collective Marta Fakuch.
Jurij Podgoršek (1992) is a creator of digital and hardware interfaces that mediate between fields of movement, image and sound, programmer, systems administrator and co-author of tech-critical techno enema broadcast at Radio Študent. Self-employed in culture as author of radio broadcasts and intermedia artist. Co-creates in Cirkulacija 2, active member of self-managed librehosting community kompot and manages the online literary micro publishing house kreten.si.
Blaž Božič — SsmKOSK, born in 1991 in Ljubljana, is a poet, musician, classical philologist and translator. He’s currently a doctoral student at the Department of Classics FF UL, where he is preparing a dissertation on the last epic of antiquity, Ep of Dionysus Nonos from Panopolis. He has published the chapbook Grč (KUD Kentaver, 2011) and three poetry collections, Potem smo si vranice odprli na nežno valujoči livadi (KUD France Prešeren, 2013), K območnim poročilom (Centre for slovene Literature, 2016) and the latest, mleček, žbunje: grobovi v njem (Centre for slovene literature, 2022). His poems have been translated into Serbian, English, German, Greek, and Ukrainian. As a guitarist in nevemnevem know and man behind the experimental breakcore-glitchcore-noise project SsmKOSK he is also committed to music and sound.
